Poetry & poetics

Sidney's defence of imaginative writing against its Puritan detractors, written around 1580 and published after his death in two editions of 1595, one titled The Defence of Poesie, the other An Apologie for Poetrie.

The Conquest of Granada is a Restoration era stage play, a two-part tragedy written by John Dryden that was first acted in 1670 and 1671 and published in 1672.

Published in London: 1810.

This book collects together lectures on English poetry Hazlitt delivered at London’s Surrey Institution in 1818, ranging from ‘On Poetry in General’, through acknowledged classics such as Chaucer, Spenser and…